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Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-023

Description: War effort on the home front. Soldiers helping with harvesting linen flax, tobacco, oats, wheat and managing pigs Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints, some with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection has been called the "War Effort" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). Some have negatives which can be found at G 176061 1/2 - G 176075 1/2. (Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

By: McKenzie, Beryl, active 1976

Reference: PAColl-7438

Description: Photograph of a group of men and women workers outside a barn at the Government Gardens, Grovetown, during World War II. William Elsmore is the second from the right in the centre row. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-022-05

Description: War effort on the home front. Production of wool, showing wool sorting and wool in stores, in bales and being loaded onto transport Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection has been called the "War Effort" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). The negatives associated with the group of prints in this particular collection can be found at F 175558 1/2 - F 175563 1/2.(Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-142

Description: Series of official publicity photographs. Some contain captions. Women's National Service Corps truck driver, Auckland; working in an army library; anti-aircraft training; returned men and women on furlough from 2nd NZEF on parade to a luncheon in their honour at Wellington; All Nations Day parade, Wellington (photo of US Armed Forces); NZ Women's Auxillary Service participating in parade. WAAC writing a letter inside her hut; two WAAF plotters at NZ Headquarters, 1943; series of photographs showing the WAAC Camp Fire Brigade practicising at WAAC Camp, Miramar Includes negative envelopes for negatives at 1/2-176306 to 1/2-176352 Includes two photographs taken by Green & Hahn, photographers, 152 Armagh St, Christchurch Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-022

Description: War effort on the home front. Manufacturing weapons, plane parts, transport vehicles, vessels, and medical equipment. Production of coal, linen flax, wool and food. The collection also includes notes on aspects of social and economic organisation in New Zealand in relation to the war. Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection has been called the "War Effort" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). They do not seem to be associated with any negatives. (Feb 1995) Quantity: 10 container(s) (box).

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-196

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the NZ Free Lance, 1939-1940 `Win-the war rally' organised by Christchurch Returned Soldiers Association and held at Lancaster Park, Jul 1940; Christchurch Red Cross shop and volunteers A Williams, F Scott, N Rattray, and Misses Barbara Greenwood, Sylvia Scott and Shirley Buchanan, Jul 1940. Grand wheel-barrow procession in Christchurch to raise money for the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund (includes H S Feast, town clerk), Jun 1940; Christchurch bankers Barrel Derby in aid of funds for the RSA, Nov 1940; Christchurch Welcome Club entertaining service men; gathering at the monthly meeting of the wives of Canterbury officers on active service (Mrs C Webster, Mrs W G Morrison, Mrs F E Dornwell, Mrs R Dasler, Mrs L Bean) held at home of Major & Mrs H G Livingstone, Riccarton Road. Gisborne Returned Soldiers' Derby held in aid of its candidate Jill Williams in a patriotic queen carnival; Minute's silence being observed in Armistace Day 1939 on the main street of Gisborne; reunion dinner for members of Gisborne branch of New Zealand Rifle Brigade Veterans Association held at Gisborne RSA rooms, Jul 1940; Old English fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; crowning of Dunedin's patriotic queen and historical pageant at His Majesty's Theatre, Nov 1940; purchase of National war-saving bonds at Post Office Savings Bank, Wellington, Oct 1940; evacuated British children arriving in New Zealand, Oct 1940; Repertory Theatre wartime concert at Trentham, Oct 1940; small girl knitting socks; Spinsters' Club Knitting Bee at Trentham Camp, May 1940. Red Cross Society's depot in Wellington, May 1940 (Miss A McIntosh, Mrs V R Gunn, Mrs G W Guthrie & Miss M Low); Wellington detachment of women motor-drivers formed by Miss Betty Rendle (Audrey Anderson, Noeline Lock, Sheila Wilson, Shirley Spears, Molly Briton Smith, Margaret Farra, Lois Little, Molly Goldfinch, Maida Saunders & Peggy Hyams), Nov 1939. St John & Red Cross street-appeal for the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund held in Wellington, May 1940 (Major J Abel. Hon Treasuer), May 1940; woman collecting for Orphanage Day at Wellington Railway Station, Dec 1939 Jewish Red Cross Society meeting (President Mrs H E Crust, Treasuer Mrs A Rose McKaskell, Joint Secretarys E Myers & E Friedlander and other members), Oct 1940 Raffle of model bungalow built by children and teachers at Milne Street School, Spreydon, Sep 1940; items on show before bowling club auction in aid of patriotic funds; Christchurch copper trail; young boy on beach at Paraparaumu behind the defence mound he built from sand and named with shells "Defender N.Z." photographer Rev R T Wearne, Ellice Street, Wellington. Royal Air Force photographers, 1938 & 1940 Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Boyer, Charles Percy Samuel, 1902-1973

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-141

Description: Series of official and non-official photographs. Most contain captions. Women's War Auxillary members replacing men at Auckland Central Fire Station; women on duty at Headquarters Unit of E.P.S. organisation; members of Women's Auxillary Army Corps at Auckland Anti-Aircraft Station; nurses embarking on a hospital ship bound for the Middle East; nurses and soldiers on parade outside entrance to the Auckland Domain; nurses and soldiers marching in the grounds of Parliament, Wellington; group photograph, 12 Sep 1945 (not identified); members of the first party of WAAFs to leave NZ for overseas service with Minister of Defence, Mr F Jones and Group Captain Bannerman, in the grounds of the WAAF hostel at Wellington; group of returning WAACs on disembarkation at Wellington (C P S Boyer, photographer) Miss E M Nutsey, Matron-in-Chief, 2NZEF, inspects V.A.D.s on their arrival in the Middle East; Governor General speaking to Miss McClure (OC WAACs) in Pacific Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-139

Description: Series of official and non-official photographs. Most contain captions. Women's Auxillary Air Force - Assisting a meteorologist; taking sightings with a theodolite; attending to the metering equipment on a refuelling tanker; receiving advice at Headquarters from WAAF commandant Wing Commander Mrs F I Kain, prior to boarding ship for service overseas; three WAAFs on board ship. Women's National Service Corps on parade in Auckland; WAAC women on the parade ground at a South Island training establishment. Women's Auxillary Army Corps at an Auckland Anti-Aircraft Station. Series of photographs of three Wrens training at Auckland. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 9 Feb 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000139-F

Description: Packing cabbages for United States forces. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, 9 February, 1943. Note on back of file print reads: "Lend lease, reciprocal" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 9 Feb 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000131-F

Description: Timber at Paekakariki railway yards, awaiting transit to the United States servicemen's camps under construction. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, 9 February, 1943. Note on back of file print reads "Lend lease, reciprocal" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 5 July 1940]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-8557-70

Description: Parcels packed by the Ngaio (Wellington) sub-committee of the Patriotic Fund for soldiers overseas during World War 2. Photograph taken for the Evening Post, circa 5 July. Publication note - Published in the Evening Post, 5 July 1940 The parcels were packed at the home of Mrs Wakelin, Colway Street, Ngaio, Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.3 x 19.9 cm

Date: ca 1942

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000135-F

Description: Carpenter constructing a food store for the United States servicemen's camps at Paekakariki. Photograph taken by John Pascoe circa 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1945

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001312-F

Description: Men picking cabbages for United States forces stationed in New Zealand during World War 2. Shows a sportsground in Otaki turned over to the production of vegetables. Photograph taken by John Pascoe in 1945. Pascoe caption listed under "New Zealand Crops" reads: "The Services' Vegetable Production was undertaken by the Department of Agriculture in 1942 when existing facilities could not meet the combined demands of civilians and servicemen. By the summer of 1943 £4,000,000 of green vegetables had been supplied to Armed Forces." Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 21312 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000732-F

Description: Land girl, Carol Sladden, having a cigarette on Robert McKenzie's sheep farm at Mangaorapa, Hawke's Bay, 1943. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-000701 to 000738, reads: "With hundreds of Land Girls well established as experienced farm hands, it is interesting to see their way of life and work. These thirty-eight photographs give a balanced impression of what is a typical sheep farm..." Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30 reads: "Recreation for Carol - a smoke." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: during World War 2

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0190

Description: Girl Guides making camouflage nets, (Auckland?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000718-F

Description: Docking a lamb on Robert McKenzie's sheep farm at Mangaorapa, Hawke's Bay, 1943. Shows land girl, Carol Sladden, and Robert McKenzie. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-000701 to 000738, reads: "With hundreds of Land Girls well established as experienced farm hands, it is interesting to see their way of life and work. These thirty-eight photographs give a balanced impression of what is a typical sheep farm..." Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30 reads: "Carol, also, does her share" Source of descriptive information -Robert McKenzie identified from file print of 1/4-000706 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000738-F

Description: Land girls, June Matthews and Carol Sladden, on horseback on Robert McKenzie's sheep farm at Mangaorapa, Hawke's Bay, 1943. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-000701 to 000738, reads: "With hundreds of Land Girls well established as experienced farm hands, it is interesting to see their way of life and work. These thirty-eight photographs give a balanced impression of what is a typical sheep farm..." Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30 reads: "Farewell to the land girls. June is to complete her transition from city worker to country girl by marrying a farmer from the district." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1939-1945]

By: Crown Studio (Gore, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-8887

Description: Photograph taken at Gore, Southland, during World War II, of the staff of a fire brigade; a fire brigade auxillary, and an Ambulance Transport section of the Women's War Service Auxiliary. Group portrait taken in front of a fire station. An ambulance and two fire engines are just visible. Photograph taken by Crown Studio (Gore), between 1939-1945. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Inscriptions: Verso - Fire Brigade Fire Brigade [Auxillary ?] Ambulance Transport Section W.W.S.A "Crown studio" Gore Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9.7 x 15.4 cm

Date: [between 1939-1945 ?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-034481-F

Description: Food dehydration plant, Pukekohe, Auckland, possibly during World War II. Shows women processing cabbages. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios. Source of descriptive information - Notes onOrrder Tracking caption (file print not found) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.